Tribune coverage: Mayor Emanuel's emails

United Center co-owner Jerry Reinsdorf sent emails to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s personal account questioning the city’s plan to boost the amusement tax for concerts at large venues, but a spokesman contends he was not lobbying the mayor and thus did not run afoul of city ethics laws. “Have you considered...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s handpicked Board of Ethics announced Thursday that it has vacated $2,500 fines it issued against two of the mayor’s friends and an alderman’s husband after the panel found they illegally lobbied him on his personal email account. In July, the board fined Medline Industries...

A Cook County judge has ruled that Mayor Rahm Emanuel does not have to produce an index of private emails and text messages he sent and received, dealing a setback to the Chicago Tribune in its continuing fight with the city over the mayor's electronic communications. Judge Kathleen Pantle made...

As Chicago ethics officials were reviewing nearly 30 cases of possible lobbying violations in his personal emails, Mayor Rahm Emanuel warned at least two people writing him for government favors that they should be careful not to break City Hall lobbying laws, newly released emails show. Late last...

A May political power lunch between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a Chicago private equity investor served as the catalyst for a possible underground high-speed rail tunnel between the Loop and O'Hare International Airport, new messages from Emanuel's personal email account show. Emanuel has been having...

Former Chicago Ald. William Singer has been hit with the biggest of six fines leveled this week by the Chicago Board of Ethics against those who lobbied Mayor Rahm Emanuel through his personal email account but failed to register as city lobbyists. Singer, an attorney who represented the 43rd Ward...

Five more people who sought to influence City Hall action by contacting Mayor Rahm Emanuel on his personal email broke the city's lobbying laws, the Chicago Board of Ethics ruled Wednesday. The latest violations brings to eight the number of lobbying infractions found in the mayor's emails, as the...

A top Chicago business executive and the husband of a South Side alderman both illegally lobbied Mayor Rahm Emanuel through his personal email account, the Chicago Board of Ethics announced Friday. Jim Abrams, the chief operating officer of medical supply giant Medline Industries, and Alan King,...

The Chicago Board of Ethics on Wednesday found there is probable cause that eight more individuals and the companies they represented broke the city's lobbying laws for actions revealed in Mayor Rahm Emanuel's personal emails — a substantial expansion of the number of potential lobbying violations...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel had little to say Wednesday about the dozens of potential lobbying violations found in his personal emails, declining to offer an explanation for why some individuals who contacted him on his nongovernment email seeking favorable action from City Hall did not register as lobbyists....